'THOROUGH' HEARING ON CIA REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200670003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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mended terminating the was the department's chief
covert student operations, and.'.;' liaison with the CIA.
suggested sofe other means There could hardly be a;
might be found to carxy them better informed witness to the
on openly. dominant role that intelligence
"We believe," the student has played in the last few
leaders said, "that the public years; and, in an absorbing
has a right to know more than;; book to be published later this
the report has told.'' They': spring, Hilsman brilliantly,
want a thorough investigation, ? illuminates some of the obscu-;
co. ducted in public either by rities of recent foreign policy.
Conga ess or a panel of citi- His book is not muckraking,.
zees. but fresh history. It is not an
They are not likely to get.:; - indictment of the CIA, but a i
their wish, fora thorough conscientious effort to analyze
investigation would almost I
certainly go beyond the stu-?' the problem it poses. He''.
dent matter, and get into .;I'recalls Allen Dulles, CIA's;
areas of truly vital impor-, is most ? famous director, as.
lance, such as: n ( saying, "The National Securi
1-Considering proposals to remove "black" operations.: ty Act of 1947 has given intelli-.
from CIA management, and gence? a more influential
confine the agency to its J position in our government';
ori;'innl role of gathering and that intelligence enjoys in any,
cvaluatino worldwide intelli- other government of the
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2-Determining whether the world." It was an understate-
agency should be allowed to went. .
continue making policy, as ? "The basic trouble,'." says
well as carrying it out. Hilsman, "was that the agen.
There has never been a .. cy was simply too powerful for
director of the CIA who hasn't, tho narrow function for which,
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